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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionWestern reaction to Lula’s speech on Ukraine shows the Global South’s powerThe US has accused Brazil of siding with Russia, but Lula’s official neutrality has more to do with China
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Published in: openSecurityYemen: under fire, desperate for peaceCan the Yemen peace talks succeed? The dire humanitarian situation demands it but political factionalism and...
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Published in: openSecurityMorocco, UN myopia and the Libyan crisisIt may be understandable that the UN should clutch at any straws to address the miasma in Libya. But Morocco...
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Published in: openSecurityYemen at warWith a humanitarian crisis mounting in Yemen, Saudi Arabia has eased its military pressure—for the moment.
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Published in: openSecurityErdoğan, Syria and the Kurds: be careful what you wish forA complex political triangulation links the Turkish president with the Syrian imbroglio and the Kurdish question,...
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Published in: openSecurityIran behind the conciliatory veilRight-wing US and Israeli venom against the outline agreement is one thing; genuine concern about the Islamic...
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Published in: openSecuritySecuritisation not the response to deaths at seaThe European Union has responded to the humanitarian crisis presented by refugee deaths in the Mediterranean—but...
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Published in: openSecurityProhibiting autonomous weapons systemsThey have been dubbed ‘killer robots’. Concerted international action is needed to prevent the emergence of weapons...
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Published in: openSecurityYemen: dialogue must replace warThe Saudi-led air strikes on Yemen have failed to stem the Houthi advance. Time for jaw-jaw, not war-war.
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Published in: openSecurityA Gulf in understandingThe outline Iran nuclear deal has highlighted divisions in the region—not just between majority Shia and Sunni...
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Published in: openSecurityIran nuclear deal: keeping hope of peace aliveConservatives in the US, Israel and Iran itself are all opposed to the outline nuclear accord. So it looks like progress.
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Published in: openSecuritySudan: nodding through a dictator’s re-electionNext week sees elections in Sudan. But there’s one thing wrong—we already know the outcome.
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Published in: openSecurityIran celebrates historic nuclear deal—all eyes now on supreme leaderA quarter-century on from the 'Islamic' revolution, Iran's beleaguered economy and its reformist leader desperately...
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Published in: openSecurityAndargachew Tsige: Ethiopian brutality, British apathyA UK citizen who was a refugee from the one-party state that is Ethiopia has been spirited back into its clutches....
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Published in: openSecurityLibya: the pressing need for dialogueThe western intervention in Libya in 2011 failed to recognise the complex warp and weft of its pre-democratic tribal...
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Published in: openSecurityAn irresistible force? Arab citizens of Israel after the electionsBinyamin Netanyahu may have returned to power by disowning the two-state solution and scaremongering about Arab...
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Published in: openSecurityArms and the men: Sweden’s revoked Saudi arms dealFrom the outside, the Swedish snub to the Saudi royals looks like a big triumph for women’s rights over commercial...
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Published in: openSecurityIndonesia regresses with the use of the death penaltyThe prospect of execution of two Australians in Indonesia has caught international media attention, amid Australian...
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Published in: openSecurityWith Ghani in Kabul, will relations with Pakistan change?There are signs that the long-fraught relationship between Afghanistan and Pakistan could improve, following the...
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Published in: openSecurityTurkey and Armenia: genocide? what genocide?April 1915 saw the start of the genocide against Armenians and other minorities in the former Ottoman Empire....
